ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,772, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for detecting terminal that deviates from cluster" was invented by Myoungseob Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaeho Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one embodiment, a method and apparatus for detecting a vulnerable road user or a terminal of the vulnerable road user that deviates from a cluster are disclosed. A base station detects the deviation of a second terminal from the cluster on the basis of a safety message received from a first terminal, and transmits a warning message to at lea...